Premiere Pro Podcast #24: Creating a Sports Highlight Reel part 1

How to make ESPN-style slowmos and special effects in Premiere Pro CS3 using the Time Remapping Effect
By Jeff Schell

In Part 1 of this two part podcast, host Jeff Schell shows you how to take a clip of a football game -- or any sporting event -- and use Premiere Pro's built-in Time Remapping effects to create slow motion "slowmos" and freeze frames. This real-world example illustrates how to identify an event in a video clip and separate the Time-Remapping keyframes around that event so that the video speed smoothly decelerates instead of immediately jumping to slow-motion, as previous versions of Premiere used to do. Then Jeff walks you through the steps of creating a second pair of Time-Remapping keyframes to accelerate the video back up to 100% speed. Jeff also demonstates how to use the Alt+drag combo to rove ("move") your Time Remapping keyframes in the Sequence, as well as the Alt+Ctrl+drag combo to create instantaneous, frozen ("paused") keyframes.

Also check back for Part 2 next week, when Jeff demonstrates how to make some of the same visual effect techniques seen on ESPN SportsCenter to highlight specific players or plays

To download this week's DMN Podcast for later viewing right click (Command Click on Mac) this link and save to disk: podcast24_ipod.mp4

Jeff will provide a new Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 video podcast each week.

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